On June 21, 1936, approximately 60 armed Arabs in British Mandate Palestine attacked a convoy of Jewish-owned buses traveling from Haifa to Tel Aviv. The modern State of Israel had not yet come into existence, so what were the Arabs fighting against?

On April 4, 1920, before the establishment of the State of Israel and before any so-called "occupation," a Muslim festival attended by tens of thousands of Arabs erupted into violence against Jews in Jerusalem.